My C.V.

Born in Quiberon/France

I won contest and medals but the only one I'm proud of
is the one I got when I was 5

<<<Berlin Kudam 1972

Member
of the Taylor Foundation.
Silver medal "Académie Arts Sciences et Lettres "
in Paris
resigned from teaching at the end of my studies to go on painting
as a professional painter.
Then I studied one year in an artschool in Nice and went as an au-pair
in Cologne/Germany where I studied in a private art school.
1971/75 Hoch Schule für Bildene Kunst (Art school) West Berlin,
poems
Illustrations and various salons (Cologne, Berlin), I sold my paintings
in the street Kurfürstendam in Berlin.

1976 Back to Quiberon, I paint and sell in my own studio : the Galerie
ART+

Since 1987 permanently in Quiberon, Pinneberg(Hamburg)
I like switching from one painting technique to another. I use water-
colour for my outdoor sketches. I draw with crayons, pastels
and paint small oils as preparation for bigger works. I work a lot on
those last works, larger oil colours or big watercolour drawings and you
can see I am very figurative. I hope I show my feminine outlook on the
world. I am very much against the terrorism of the official contemporary
establishment art. Most of the time it is only repeating the ideas of
the first 35 years of the 20th century. Once upon a time those ideas
my have been revolutionary but wasn't it a long time ago ? The word "contemporary"
is used in place of "modern" which mostly means "fashionable".
I am an artist of my time, so I am a contemporary artist. I want to follow
on the tracks of BALTHUS, a great artist that many official critics use
as an alibi. (They most of the time say : I like contemporary art AND
Balthus) .
Balthus said : " It's already been a long time that "avant
garde " is a notion that no longer mean anything. The false Art Amateurs,
speculators buy what they don't understand because they are affraid of
"missing the coach". That's the big misunderstanding of modern
art. This phenomena helped the development of the non-figurative dictatorship".
Balthus is (he was: the artworld lost him on Sunday February 18th 2001)
a great contemporary painter and I try to follow in his steps and Botticelli's,
Burnes Jones and other ancient masters .
It's not enough to be designers. We are also HANDWORKERS, using centuries-old
techniques to which we're lucky enough to be able to add modern discoveries.
I try to be a witness of my time, to show the beauties of our world and
its horrors sometimes. Contemporary musicians still practice their instruments,
dancers train their muscles, I think it's a pity that in our official
schools of Beaux Arts it's now almost forbidden to learn or even to know
how to paint.
I'm proud to know some techniques, I still have to learn more. I'm now
more than 50, I hope like Hokusai that when I am 100 I'll still be making
progress ! ! !